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Andy McNab: Behind Enemy Lines

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Jack Carr

Society & Culture

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest on Danger Close is Andy McNab. 


Andy is a former member of the British SAS who led Bravo Two Zero during the first Gulf War.  Over his time in the military, he conducted counter-terrorist and anti-drug missions in Central and South America and throughout the Middle East and worked undercover in Northern Ireland. He was captured in Iraq on a mission during the first Gulf War in 1991, an experience he recounts in his first book, Bravo Two Zero


Andy was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM). At the time he left SAS in 1993, he was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier. In his post-military life, he has instructed special operations forces in survival, hostage rescue and counter terrorism. He was also the technical advisor on the classic action film Heat. He is the author of the Nick Stone and Tom Buckingham thriller series, the co-author of the Boy Soldier series, and the author of three books about his own military experience: Bravo Two Zero, Seven Troop, and Immediate Action. Andy’s novel Red Notice, was recently adapted into a major motion picture, and is currently available on Netflix as SAS: Rise of the Black Swan


You can follow him on Twiter @the_real_mcnab. 


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0:00.0

This is the Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books with me, Jack Carr.

0:13.3

Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Six Hour.

0:20.8

I guess today is Andy McNabb.

0:22.6

Andy is a former British SAS soldier who led Bravo 20 during the first Gulf War.

0:28.4

He was captured, tortured for three weeks before his eventual release.

0:32.7

He wrote about that experience in a book called Bravo 20, which is one of, if not the best-selling

0:39.3

memoirs of modern warfare ever written.

0:42.2

He followed that up with immediate action and then seven troop and is now the author of

0:46.4

over 30 different books.

0:48.4

He also helps out consulting in Hollywood to include the Michael Mann robbery-hiced film

0:53.6

heat.

0:54.6

An amazing guy, fascinating individual.

0:57.4

It was such an honor to talk to him.

0:59.3

So now, without further ado, Andy McNabb.

1:05.0

I mean, I don't even know where to start with you because I feel like I know you from

1:10.4

all the books that I've read and from just diving into Bravo 20 when I was a young

1:14.6

seal.

1:15.9

Everybody was reading it back then.

1:17.1

This is the late 90s when I came in.

1:19.8

And there were very few books on modern warfare out there that we could study.

1:23.7

Most of everything, as you know, is from Vietnam that we had to look back on at that point.

1:28.8

So this, and we just dove into this and we had so much respect for you guys and everything

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